Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Okay.

I wish to address the increased cost of flood relief schemes and the average time they take from start to finish. With the Glashaboy scheme, we had major flooding in 2010 but it was 2022 before we got into a contract stage. Is there a better way to fast-track this as happened at the Department of Education and Youth? The time between a school project being looked for to when it gets delivered has decreased dramatically. That Department has been very good at delivering projects from start to finish. The same does not appear to happen with projects under the remit of the OPW.